Tag: Iraq war

Child trafficking in Iraq

Iraqi Children Emergency: A Campaign to Document the Kidnapping and/or Selling of Iraqi Children By Wafaa’ Al-Natheema, Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies The trauma of Iraqi children and extreme suffering have not been only due to the killing…

Canadian Peace Alliance News

Here are some news items compiled by the Canadian Peace Alliance. To get on the CPA mailing list, go to http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html. After 2011 – Why Canada Needs to Leave Afghanistan Canadian Peace Alliance March 31, 2010 At the G8 Foreign…

Murder from above

On April 5, 2010 WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate murder of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter…

America’s war crimes

A boy weeps as others survey the damage caused by a US air strike on Fallujah in September 2004. Picture:AFP The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously. By William Blum, Anti-Empire Report, April 5, 2010 When…

Why US troops will remain in Iraq

Operation Enduring Occupation by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, March 18, 2010 The 2008 National Defense Strategy reads: US interests include protecting the nation and our allies from attack or coercion, promoting international security to reduce conflict and foster economic growth, and…